Octopus 18: Mother Tongue

5 September 2018 | Art Almanac

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Initiated in 2001, the Octopus exhibition series of supports ambitious curatorial practice, through engaging an invited curator annually to develop a project that draws upon their research interests and provides a platform for new forms of exhibition making. In 2018, Kimberley Moulton, a Yorta Yorta woman, and currently the Senior Curator of South Eastern Aboriginal Collections, Melbourne Museum, curates ‘Mother Tongue’; featuring six female First Nations artists that speak to forms of language and the modes it manifests, shifting the white paradigm of ownership in relation to land, bodies, and identity.

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